{"id":9200,"date":"2014-02-20T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T15:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9200"},"modified":"2014-02-20T10:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T15:38:14","slug":"gm-wants-roethlisberger-to-retire-a-steeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/20\/gm-wants-roethlisberger-to-retire-a-steeler\/","title":{"rendered":"GM wants Roethlisberger to retire a Steeler"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6686\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6686\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/benroethlisberger.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/benroethlisberger.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/benroethlisberger-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/benroethlisberger-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert said that the organization wants quarterback Ben Roethlisberg to play there for the rest of his NFL career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unanimous that we want Ben to be a Steeler for the rest of his career,&#8221; Colbert said on 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh, via <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/10483781\/pittsburgh-steelers-gm-wants-re-sign-ben-roethlisberger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN<\/a>. &#8220;There&#8217;s nobody that I&#8217;d rather have or the franchise would rather have than Ben. He&#8217;s won for us, there&#8217;s still a lot of tread of the tires.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We feel good about where he is, we feel great about how he finished last year and we&#8217;re looking to build off of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s currently two years left on Roethlisberger&#8217;s contract. The Steeelers are not known to be working on an extension for the 31-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Roethlisberger threw for 4,261 yards last season while coming the franchises all-time leader in touchdown passes. The Steelers finished the season 8-8 and are up against the salary cap. With Roethlisberger to count $18.9 million against he cap expect a deal to get worked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert said that the organization wants quarterback Ben Roethlisberg to play there for the rest of his NFL career. &#8220;It&#8217;s unanimous that we want Ben to be a Steeler for the rest of his career,&#8221; Colbert said on 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh, via ESPN. &#8220;There&#8217;s nobody that I&#8217;d rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[89,426,216,68],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ben-roethlisberger","tag-front","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9200"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}